Cornwall Friends Meeting House
The Cornwall Friends Meeting House is a historic meeting house located on a 5.4-acre (2.2 ha) parcel of land at the junction of Quaker Avenue (Orange County 107) and US 9W in Cornwall, New York, United States, near Cornwall-St. Luke's Hospital. It is both the oldest religious building in the town, and the first one built. In 1988 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a well-preserved, minimally-altered example of a late 18th-century Quaker meeting house.
Cornwall Friends Meeting House | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
South (front) elevation and west profile of meeting house in 2007 | |
| Location | Cornwall, NY |
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| Nearest city | Newburgh |
| Coordinates | 41°26′01″N 74°02′35″W |
| Area | 5.4 acres (2.2 ha) |
| Built | 1790 |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002751 |
| Added to NRHP | 1988 |
Built in 1790, it emulates the doubled style of meeting house pioneered by Buckingham Friends Meeting House in Pennsylvania two decades earlier. David Sands-Ring, a local convert to the Religious Society of Friends and the son of a wealthy landowner, sponsored the construction of the meeting house. At first a branch of the Nine Partners meeting near present-day Millbrook in Dutchess County, it later became an independent congregation within the Society. Members also maintain the Smith Clove Meetinghouse in Highland Mills to the south of Cornwall.